28th Fantasia International Film Festival

28th Fantasia International Film Festival

Opening film	Bookworm
Closing film	Ababooned (Ababouiné)
Location	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Founded	1996
Festival date	18 July to 4 August 2024
Language	International
Website	fantasiafest.com
Fantasia International Film Festival
29th 27th

The 28th Fantasia International Film Festival was held from 18 July to 4 August 2024 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ^{[1] [2]}

Juries

Compétition Cheval Noir

• Matt Johnson, Canadian filmmaker – Jury President ^[3]
• Steve Dollar, American film critic
• Rob Jabbaz, Canadian filmmaker
• Kristina Klebe, American actress and filmmaker
• Ariane Louis-Seize, French-Canadian filmmaker

New Flesh Competition for Best First Feature

• Rain Rannu, Estonian filmmaker – Jury President ^[3]
• Sapna Moti Bhavnani, Indian filmmaker
• Éric S. Boisvert, Canadian filmmaker
• Amelia Moses, Canadian filmmaker

International Short Film Competition

• Heidi Honeycutt, American film critic – Jury President ^[3]
• Jean Anne Lauer, American professor and festival programmer
• Emily Lerer, Canadian filmmaker
• Gary Pullin, American illustrator
• Alex Williams, American film acquisitions executive

Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation

• Johane Matte, Canadian story artist – Jury President ^[3]
• Jonathan Alvarez, American film acquisitions executive
• Elizabeth E. Schuch, American filmmaker

DGC Audience Award for Best Canadian Film

• Philip Kalin-Hajdu, Canadian filmmaker – Jury President ^[3]
• Caroline Labrèche, Canadian filmmaker
• Francesco Giannini, Canadian filmmaker
• Serena Whitney, Canadian film programmer and filmmaker
• Trevor Anderson, Canadian filmmaker

Poulain Noir

• Luca Jalbert, French-Canadian filmmaker – Jury President ^[3]
• Livia Gilbert, French-Canadian comedian
• Vincent Feller, French-Canadian comedian

Jury AQCC – Camera Lucida

• Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau, French-Canadian film critic – Jury President ^[3]
• Prune Paycha, French-Canadian film critic and photographer
• Guillaume Potvin, French-Canadian film critic

L'écran Fantastique Jury

• Yves Rivard, French-Canadian film critic

Films

Selection 2024

Title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
100 Yards	Haofeng Xu and Junfeng Xu	China	[4]
The A-Frame	Calvin Reeder	United States	[4]
Azrael	E. L. Katz	United States	[4]
Baby Assassins Nice Days	Yugo Sakamoto	Japan	[4]
The Beast Within	Alexander J. Farrell	United Kingdom	[4]
Black Eyed Susan	Scooter McCrae	United States	[4]
Brave Citizen	Park Jin-pyo	South Korea	[4]
Brush of the God	Keizō Murase	Japan	[4]
The Chapel	Carlota Pereda	Spain	[4]
Cuckoo	Tilman Singer	Germany	[4]
Dead Dead Full Dead	Pratul Gaikwad	India	[4]
The Dead Thing	Elric Kane	United States	[4]
Don't Call it Mystery	Hiroaki Matsuyama	Japan	[4]
FAQ	Damin Kim	South Korea	[4]
Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love	Hideki Takeuchi	Japan	[4]
Hanu-Man	Prasanth Varma	India	[4]
Haze	Matthew Fifer	United States	[4]
Heavens: The Boy and His Robot	Rich Ho	Singapore	[4]
Hell Hole	Toby Poser & John Adams	United States / Serbia	[4]
House of Sayuri	Kōji Shiraishi	Japan	[4]
The Killers	Kim Jong-kwan, Roh Deok, Chang Hang-jun, and Lee Myung-se	South Korea	[4]
A Legend	Stanley Tong	China	[4]
Meanwhile on Earth	Jérémy Clapin	France	[4]
Not Friends	Atta Hemwadee	Thailand	[4]
Oddity	Damian McCarthy	United Kingdom	[4]
The Paragon	Michael Duignan	New Zealand	[4]
Rats!	Maxwell Nalevansky and Carl Fry	United States	[4]
The Roundup: Punishment	Heo Myeong Haeng	South Korea	[4]
Shelby Oaks	Chris Stuckmann	United States	[4]
The Soul Eater	Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo	France	[4]
Swimming in a Sand Pool	Nobuhiro Yamashita	Japan	[4]
Tatsumi	Hiroshi Shoji	Japan	[4]
Teasing Master Takagi-san Movie	Rikiya Imaizumi	Japan	[4]
The Tenants	Eunkyoung Yoon	South Korea	[4]
This Man	Tomojiro Amano	Japan	[4]
Timestalker	Alice Lowe	United Kingdom	[4]
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In	Soi Cheang	China	[4]
Vulcanizadora	Joel Potrykus	United States	[4]
Witchboard	Chuck Russell	Canada	[4]
The Yin Yang Master Zero	Shimako Satō	Japan	[4]

Compétition Cheval Noir

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
4PM	오후 네시	Jay Song	South Korea	[5]
Ababooned	Ababouiné	André Forcier	Canada	[5]
The Count of Monte Cristo	Le Comte de Monte-Cristo	Alexandre de la Patelière, Matthieu Delaporte	France	[5]
Confession	告白 (Kokuhaku)	Nobuhiro Yamashita	Japan	[5]
Electrophilia	Los Impactados	Lucía Puenzo	Argentina	[5]
In Our Blood		Pedro Kos	United States	[5]
Infinite Summer		Miguel Llansó	Estonia, Spain	[5]
Mash Ville	매쉬빌	Hwang Wook	South Korea	[5]
Out of the Shadow	臥底的退隱生活	Ricky Ko	Hong Kong	[5]
Párvulos		Isaac Ezban	Mexico	[5]
Penalty Loop	ペナルティループ	Shinji Araki	Japan	[5]
Rita		Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala	[5]
A Samurai in Time		Junichi Yasuda	Japan	[5]
Steppenwolf		Adilkhan Yerzhanov	Kazakhstan	[5]

New Flesh Competition

Title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
Brush of the God	Keizō Murase	Japan	[6]
Chainsaws were Singing	Sander Maran	Estonia	[6]
Dead Dead Full Dead	Pratul Gaikwad	India	[6]
Heavens: The Boy and His Robot	Rich Ho	Singapore	[6]
Hunting Daze (Jour de chasse)	Annick Blanc	Canada	[6]
Kidnapping Inc.	Bruno Mourral	Canada / Haiti / France	[6]
Kryptic	Kourtney Roy	Canada	[6]
Me and My Victim	Maurane Dubois and Billy Pedlow	Canada	[6]
Not Friends	Atta Hemwadee	Thailand	[6]
The Paragon	Michael Duignan	New Zealand	[6]
Rats!	Maxwell Nalevansky and Carl Fry	United States	[6]
Self Driver	Michael Pierro	United States	[6]
Shelby Oaks	Chris Stuckmann	United States	[6]

Animation Plus

Feature films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
Animalia Paradoxa		Niles Atallah	Chile	[5]
Ghost Cat Anzu	化け猫あんずちゃん (Bakeneko Anzu-chan)	Yōko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita	Japan	[5]
KIZUMONOGATARI - Koyomi Vamp	傷物語 こよみヴァンプ	Tatsuya Oishi	Japan	[5]
Mantra Warrior: The Legend of the Eight Moons	นักรบมนตรา: ตำนานแปดดวงจันทร์	Veerapatra Jinanavin	Thailand	[5]
The Missing	Iti Mapukpukaw	Carl Joseph Papa	Philippines	[5]
Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain	劇場版モノノ怪 唐傘 (Gekijōban Mononoke: Karakasa)	Kenji Nakamura	Japan	[5]
Sunburnt Unicorn		Nick Johnson	Canada	[5]
The Umbrella Fairy	伞少女	Jie Shen	China	[5]

Short films

Title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
Amy and Frog	Paul Williams	United Kingdom, China	[5]
Bottled Thunder	Leong Jo	China	[5]
Bulusan and Agigngay: The Cry of Mampak	Gary George Clotario	Philippines	[5]
The Exorcist, Kim Rina	Yeonhoo Kim, Sugyeon Shin, Sumin Lim	South Korea	[5]
Game Show	Fei Chen	China	[5]
I'm Not a Robot	Victoria Warmerdam	Belgium, Netherlands	[5]
Lantern Blade Episode 1	Ziqi Zhu	China	[5]
Lantern Blade Episode 2			[5]
Lantern Blade Episode 3			[5]
Macguffin	Jihye Yang	South Korea	[5]
Maidens of the Ripples	Soma Michiko	Japan	[5]
Mecha-Ude Episode 1	Sae Okamoto	Japan	[5]

Documentaries From The Edge

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
Adrianne and the Castle		Shannon Walsh	Canada	[5]
From My Cold Dead Hands		Javier Horcajada Fontecha	Spain	[5]
VOÏVOD: We Are Connected		Felipe Belalcazar	Canada	[5]

Fantasia Retro

The Fantasia Retro section honors feature works that shaped the history of genre filmmaking. ^[7]

Feature films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
The Avenging Eagle (1978)	冷血十三鷹 (Léngxuě Shísān Yīng)	Sun Chung	Hong Kong	[7]
A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990)	倩女幽魂 II：人間道	Ching Siu-tung	Hong Kong	[7]
Cockfighter (1974)		Monte Hellman	United States	[7]
Cube (1997)		Vincenzo Natali	Canada	[7]
Devil Times Five (1974)		Sean MacGregor	United States	[7]
Hollywood 90028 (1973)		Christina Hornisher	United States	[7]
Killer Constable (1980)	萬人斬 (Wàn Rén Zhǎn)	Chih-Hung Kwei	Hong Kong	[7]
My Financial Career (1962)		Gerald Potterton	Canada	[7]
Tiki Tiki (1971)				[7]

Short films

Title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
Jean Pierre Lefebvre (2013)	Simon Galiero	Quebec	[7]
Hors-d'oeuvre (1960)	Gerald Potterton, Robert Verrall, Arthur Lipsett, Derek Lamb, Jeff Hale, Kaj Pindal	Canada	[7]
My Financial Career (1962)	Gerald Potterton	Canada	[7]

Genre Du Pays

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
The Carpenter (1988)		David Wellington	Canada	[8]
Song for Julie (1976)	Chanson pour Julie	Jacques Vallée		[8]
Snake Eater (1989)	L'Indomptable	George Erschbamer		[8]
The Pig's Law (2001)	La Loi du cochon	Érik Canuel		[8]
The Night with Hortense (1988)	Nuit avec Hortense, La	Jean Chabot		[8]
Pigs Are Seldom Clean (1973)	On n'engraisse pas les cochons à l'eau claire	Jean Pierre Lefebvre		[8]
The Rubber Gun (1977)		Allan Moyle		[8]

Anime no bento 2024

The Anime no bento program features highlights from new anime releases. ^[9]

Title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
First Line	Tina	Japan	[9]
Maidens of the Ripples	Soma Michiko		[9]
The True Shape of a Daisy	Naoki Arata		[9]
Kamigoroshi: Prologue	Tomoyuki Niho		[9]
Okuninushi and Sukunabikona	Akitoshi Yokoyama		[9]
String Dance from the film TAISU	Shuhei Morita		[9]

Circo Animato 2024

The Circo Animato section of the festival showcases new animated short films from around the world.

Title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
African American Express	Sydnie Baynes	Canada	[10]
Anthropocene	Huang Yun-Sian, Raitow Low	Taiwan	[10]
The Beasts	Michael Granberry	United States	[10]
Extremely Short	Kōji Yamamura	United States, Japan	[10]
Formes	Tsz-wing Ho	Hong Kong	[10]
Haru-tsuge Fish and Fu-rai Boy	Takeshi Yashiro	Japan	[10]
Itch	Maggie Zeng	Canada	[10]
Mothership: The Awakening	Joseph Burrascano	United States	[10]
A New Account of Tales of the World	Meiyi Che	China	[10]
Number 32. Giant Fish	Seunghyun Si	South Korea	[10]
Pantheon Bird	Eunyoung Choi, Asami Murakoshi	Japan	[10]
The Parade	Ryan Benjamin Lee	United States, Singapore	[10]
Trumpet Voice	David Monarte Serna, Pilar Smoje Gueico	Chile	[10]
The Wedding Veil of the Proud Princes	Anna-Ester Volozh	United Kingdom	[10]
Weiqi Fantasy	Yuanru Liu	China	[10]
The Yearbook	Charlie Galea McClure	Canada	[10]

Sepentrion Shadows

The Sepentrion Shadows program features works from the northern regions of Canada. ^[11]

Feature films

Title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
Dark Match	Lowell Dean	Canada	[11]
Darkest Miriam	Naomi Jaye		[11]
Frankie Freako	Steven Kostanski		[11]
The G	Karl R. Hearne		[11]
Kryptic	Kourtney Roy		[11]
Scared Shitless	Vivieno Caldinelli		[11]
Self Driver	Michael Pierro		[11]
The Silent Planet	Jeffrey St. Jules		[11]
Sunburnt Unicorn	Nick Johnson		[11]

Short films

Title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
Art Baby	Pony Nicole Herauf	Canada	[11]
Bath Bomb	Colin G. Cooper		[11]
Bladder Shy	Joel Goundry		[11]
Can't Sleep	Liam O'Connor-Savaria		[11]
Dealer	Alfio Foti		[11]
Dirty Bad Wrong	Erica Orofino		[11]
The Door	Alexander Seltzer		[11]
For Rent	Michèle Kaye		[11]
Hell Is a Teenage Girl	Stephen Sawchuk		[11]
How To Stay Awake	Vanessa Magic		[11]
My Son Went Quiet	Ian Bawa		[11]
Ring Neck	Vasili Manikas		[11]
The Second	Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou		[11]
The Shitty Ride	Cole Doran		[11]
Shiva	Josh Saltzman		[11]
Thank You	Summer Lynn Gillespie and Carlo Quicho		[11]
What the Hell	Valerie Barnhart		[11]
Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area	Solmund MacPherson		[11]
You Don't Read Enough	Noa Kozulin		[11]
You Have Reached Your Destination	Ryan Couldrey		[11]

Underground

The Underground program features works from international regions of the world. ^[12]

Title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
Animalia Paradoxa	Niles Atallah	Chile	[12]
Carnage for Christmas	Alice Maio Mackay	Australia	[12]
Chainsaws Were Singing	Sander Maran	Estonia	[12]
The Code	Eugene Kotlyarenko	United States	[12]
Love & Pop	Hideaki Anno	Japan	[12]
Me and My Victim	Maurane and Billy Pedlow	Canada	[12]
The Old Man and the Demon Sword	Fábio Powers	Portugal	[12]

Awards

Special Prizes

• Prix Denis-Héroux Award — André Forcier ^[1]
• Trailblazer Award — Vincenzo Natali ^[1]
• Cheval Noir Award — Mike Flanagan ^[1]

Cheval Noir competition

• Best Film — The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre de la Patelière, Matthieu Delaporte ^[13]
  • Special Jury Mention — Electrophilia — Lucía Puenzo ^[13]
• Best Director — Mash Ville — Hwang Wook ^[13]
• Best Screenplay — Electrophilia — Lucía Puenzo, Lorena Ventimiglia ^[13]
• Best Cinematography — Inti Briones, Rita (dir. Jayro Bustamante) ^[13]
• Best Editing — Penalty Loop (dir. Shinji Araki) ^[13]
• Best Motion Picture Score — Penalty Loop (dir. Shinji Araki) ^[13]
• Outstanding Performance Award — Mariana di Girolamo, Electrophilia; Anna Starchenko, Steppenwolf; Berik Aitzhanov, Steppenwolf ^[13]

New Flesh competition

• Best First Feature — Self Driver — Michael Pierro ^[13]
• Special Jury Mentions — Chainsaws Were Singing — Sander Maran); Kidnapping Inc. — Bruno Mourral ^[13]

International Short Film Competition

• Best Film — Empty Jars — Guillermo Ribbeck ^[13]
• Best Director — Björn Schagerström, Headache ^[13]
• Best Screenplay — Iván Maureira and Guillermo Ribbeck, Empty Jars (dir. Guillermo Ribbeck) ^[13]
• Best Cinematography — Be Right Back (dirs. Gabe Ibañez and Lucas Paulino) ^[13]
• Best Editing — Night Fishing (dir. Moon Byoung-gon) ^[13]
• Best Score — Blitzmusik (dir. Martin Amiot) ^[13]
• Outstanding Performance — Ana Burgos, Empty Jars; Amed Bozan, Jenny Gustavsson, and Torkel Petersson, Headache ^[13]
• Special Jury Mention (Best Film) — The Streetlight — Sophia Parella ^[13]

Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation

• Best Animated Feature — Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain — Kenji Nakamura ^[13]
• Special Jury Mention (Best Animated Feature) — The Missing — Carl Joseph Papa ^[13]
• Best Animated Short
  • Gold — Wild Animal — Tianyun Lyu ^[13]
  • Silver – Itch — Maggie Zeng ^[13]
  • Bronze — Trumpet Voice — David Monarte Serna. Pilar Smoje Gueico ^[13]

Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Director

• Best Director (Feature Film) — Naomi Jaye, Darkest Miriam ^[13]
• Special Jury Mention — Karl R. Hearne, The G ^[13]

Quebec Critics Choice Association Award

• Best Film – Me and My Victim — Maurane, Billy Pedlow ^[13]
• Special Jury Mention – Vulcanizadora — Joel Potrykus ^[13]

Poulain Noir - My First Fantasia Award

• Best Film
  • Gold – Eyes — Yoojae Choi, Hyokyoung Nam ^[13]
  • Silver – Two One Two — Shira Avni ^[13]
  • Bronze – The Girl with the Occupied Eyes — Andre Carrilho ^[13]

L’Écran Fantastique Award

• The Beast Within — Alexander J. Farrell

Audience Awards

• Best International Feature
  • Gold: Bookworm — Ant Timpson ^[14]
  • Silver: The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre de la Patelière, Matthieu Delaporte ^[14]
  • Bronze: RATS! — Maxwell Nalevansky, Carl Fry ^[14]
• Best International Short
  • Gold: Faces ^[14]
  • Silver: Streetlight ^[14]
  • Bronze: Les yeux d’Olga ^[14]
• Best Asian Feature
  • Gold: A Samurai in Time — Junichi Yasuda ^[14]
  • Silver: Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In — Soi Cheang ^[14]
  • Bronze: Penalty Loop — Shinji Araki ^[14]
• Best Asian Short
  • Gold: Memory ^[14]
  • Silver: Wanna Die Wanna Kill ^[14]
  • Bronze: Night Fishing ^[14]
• Best Documentary Feature: Voïvod: We Are Connected — Felipe Belalcazar ^[14]
• Best Animated Feature
  • Gold: Ghost Cat Anzu — Yōko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita ^[14]
  • Silver: The Missing — Carl Joseph Papa ^[14]
  • Bronze: Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain — Kenji Nakamura ^[14]
• Best Animated Short
  • Gold: Ruthless Blade ^[14]
  • Silver: Lantern Blade, Episode Three ^[14]
  • Bronze: Les Bêtes; Number 32. Giant Fish (tie) ^[14]
• Best Canadian Feature
  • Gold: Self Driver — Michael Pierro ^[14]
  • Silver: The Silent Planet — Jeffrey St. Jules ^[14]
  • Bronze: Scared Shitless — Vivieno Caldinelli ^[14]
• Best Canadian Short
  • Gold: The Shitty Ride — Cole Doran ^[14]
  • Silver: Dirty Bad Wrong — Erica Orofino ^[14]
  • Bronze: Bath Bomb — Colin G. Cooper ^[14]
• Best Quebec Feature
  • Gold: Kidnapping Inc. — Bruno Mourral ^[14]
  • Silver: Hunting Daze (Jour de chasse) — Annick Blanc ^[14]
  • Bronze: Ababooned (Ababouiné) — André Forcier ^[14]
• Best Quebec Short
  • Gold: The Image Seller ^[14]
  • Silver: Mourir en silence ^[14]
  • Bronze: Réinsertion; Bring Back Guillaume (tie) ^[14]

References

1. Foreman, Alison (3 July 2024). "Fantasia Fest 2024 Announces Its Stellar Final Lineup with 'Ababouiné', 'In Our Blood', and More". IndieWire . Retrieved 3 July 2024.
2. Carson, Lexi (June 6, 2024). "Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival Unveils 'Bookworm' Starring Elijah Wood as Opening Film, Plus Second Wave of Titles (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Archived from the original on June 6, 2024. Retrieved August 21, 2024.
3. "Competitions". Fantasia Festival. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
4. "All Films: Selection 2024". Fantasia Festival. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
5. "All Films". Fantasia Festival. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
6. "Fantasia's 28th Edition Awards Filmmaker Mike Flanagan, Closes with the World Premiere of André Forcier's Ababouiné". Fantasia International Film Festival . Retrieved July 3, 2024.
7. "All Films: Fantasia Retro". Fantasia Festival. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
8. "All Films: Genre Du Pays". Fantasia Festival. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
9. "Anime no bento". Fantasia Festival. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
10. "All Films: Circo Animato 2024". Fantasia Festival. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
11. "All Films: Sepentrion Shadows". Fantasia Festival. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
12. "All Films: Underground". Fantasia Festival. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
13. Hazelton, John (July 28, 2024). "French epic 'The Count Of Monte-Cristo' named best film at Fantasia". Screen Daily . Retrieved October 16, 2024.
14. Jeremy Kay, "‘Bookworm’ wins 2024 Fantasia audience award for best international film". Screen Daily , August 6, 2024.

External links

• Official website
• Fantasia International Film Festival at FilmFreeway